Save the World
How Star Wars films thematize their own irrelevance
Ordinary Boredom
Distraction is no longer a relief from tedium but its metronome
Everything in Its Place
To live your best life in the moment, replace things with carefully staged images
Viral Oppression
Oppressive regimes don't impose a reality; they fracture it
Speaking to No One
Broadcasting on social media is less about communication than making you the audience to yourself
“Everywhere surfing has already replaced the older sports”
The idea that we can spend attention is a form of control
Mass Authentic
The desire for authenticity is a desire to disappear
The End Is Always Near
The flourishing of fascism depends upon a sense of inevitability; Peter Frase’s Four Futures: Life After Capitalism summons the will and concentration to imagine differently.
Mass authentic
Authenticity is internal to consumer culture, not the remnants of what preceded it.
Consistency through adulteration
Choosing brands helps us forget how we are addicted to fantasy
Social media as masochism
Using social media can be a masochistic means of escaping the self
The overload
Information overload is how social media becomes TV
Contortions of self-consciousness
Getting around to the impossible demand to act natural
Reacting to Reactions
Facebook Reactions saves users the trouble of having feelings
Surveillance notes
It's not monolithic
Ambient awareness
Other-directedness and self-absorption can be the same